Thursday, December 28, 2023

MTFB Oscar Update: Screenplays, International and Documentary Features, Cinematography and Editing / Interviews and Profiles: Dafoe, Mescal. Pike, Randolph and More

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SCREENPLAYS, INTERNATIONAL AND DOCUMENTARY FEATURES, CINEMATOGRAPHY AND EDITING.

Here's the latest MTFB Oscar Update.  As we move to less than a month before nomination announcements I am consolidating categories for each post. Today I'm updating the Screenplay, International Feature, Documentary Feature, Cinematography and Editing categories.  As usual TFF #50 films are in Bold.  A film's previous position on the MTFB Oscar chart is listed in parentheses.



BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY



1) The Holdovers (1)
2) Barbie (2)
3) Past Lives (3)
4) Anatomy of a Fall (4)
5) May December (-)


Alternates: Maestro, Air, Saltburn.


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY




1) Oppenheimer (1)
2) American Fiction (2)
3) Poor Things (3)
4) Killers of the Flower Moon (4)
5) All of Us Strangers (5)

Alternates: The Zone of Interest,  Spiderman  Across the Spider-Verse and Are You There God, It's Me Margaret


BEST DOCUMENTARY 



1) American Symphony (1)
2) 20 Days in Mariupol (2)
3) Beyond Utopia (4)
4) Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (3)
5) Four Daughters (5)

Alternates: The Eternal Memory, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project and Stamped from the Beginning.



BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE




1) The Zone of Interest (1)
2) The Taste of Things (2)
3) Society of the Snow (5)
4) The Teachers' Lounge (3)
5) Fallen Leaves (-)

Alternates: Perfect Days, 20 Days in Mariupol and Totem.


CINEMATOGRAPHY




1) Oppenheimer (1)
2) Killers of the Flower Moon (2)
3) Poor Things (3)
4) Maestro (4)
5) The Zone of Interest (5)

Alternates: Saltburn, Barbie and The Color Purple.


FILM EDITING




1) Oppenheimer (1)
2) Killers of the Flower Moon (2)
3) Poor Things (3)
4) Barbie (4)
5) Maestro (5)

Alternates: The Holdovers, Anatomy of a Fall and Air.

In all from 13 TFF films are represented in these categories with a predicted overall total of 13 nominations with another seven possibilities.  Here's the inventory from these six categories of nominations or possible nominations involving TFF films:

Poor Things with three nominations: Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography and Editing.

The Zone of Interest with two nominations: International Feature and Cinematography with another possible nomination for Adapted Screenplay.

The Holdovers with one nomination for Original Screenplay and another possible in Editing.

Anatomy of a Fall with one nomination for Original Screenplay and another possible for Editing.

Single predicted nominations for:

All of Us Strangers: Adapted Screenplay
American Symphony: Documentary 
Beyond Utopia: Documentary
The Taste of Things: International Feature
The Teachers' Lounge: International Feature
Fallen Leaves: International Feature

Films just outside the predicted nominations but still possible:

Saltburn with two possibilities: Original Screenplay and Cinematography.
Perfect Days could sneak into International Feature.
Totem could also slide into International Feature.

MTFB's Oscar Update will look at Animated Feature, Score, Song, Production Design, Visual Effects and Sound in the next post on New Year's day.




INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES: DAFOE, MESCAL, PIKE, RANDOLPH AND MORE


FOR ALL OF US STRANGERS:









FOR POOR THINGS




FOR THE HOLDOVERS



FOR FALLEN LEAVES




FOR THE ZONE OF INTEREST


Sandra Huller from Backstage.com (also includes some talk of Anatomy of a Fall)


FOR SALTBURN





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